The very important bit is making sure you have the proper disk identified, because this command will wipe out everything on the drive! If you launch Disk Utility, select the USB stick in the sidebar, and hit Command-I, you'll see the disk ID: This should be possible in Disk Utility, but I didn't try it. dmg to your filename you can leave it or chop it off-it won't affect anything. Replace the linuxmint… bits with the name of the downloaded ISO file (though you could name the new output file whatever you want). Assuming you're in the download directory, the command is: hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o macOS can't do much with an ISO file, so you need to convert it to an image format.
#Burn dmg to usb linux install
In my case, I wanted to install the 64-bit version of Linux Mint Cinnamon, which I found on their download page.
Until I found this page, which contained a critical step I was missing: Formatting the USB stick before copying the image file.įor future reference, here's the precise process to follow if you want to burn an ISO file onto a USB stick… The other specific pages contained the same basic process, so I was stuck. I tried one of those, but my USB stick didn't work. I found a lot of pages with a general summary of the process, and few with the specific steps. However, as it'd been a few years, I went searching for references to make sure I had all the commands correct.
I've done this in the past, and my vague recollection of the process was download the ISO, convert to an image file, write image file to USB stick. (I'll add Windows, too, eventually.) To do this, you need to get Linux onto a USB stick. I wanted to install Linux on a hard drive in Frankenmac, as Clover is a multi-boot utility-it lets you choose from any OS it sees during power up.
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